ECMAScript block attributes access

[michal_w]

HI,

Would you please tell me how to get read/write a block attribute ?

Thank you
Michał

[CVH]

Hi,

With an RDocument reference in doc, all entity ID's of the type EntityAttribute:

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var attribIds = doc.queryAllEntities(false, false, RS.EntityAttribute);

Or all entity ID's of the type EntityBlockRefAttr:

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var attribIds = doc.queryAllEntities(false, false, RS.EntityBlockRefAttr);

In some way you need to filter on the intended attribute with querying the attributes themselves by id.

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var attrib = doc.queryEntity(id);

The RAttributeEntity has several methods including reading/writing the tag content, the plain text and so on.
See reference
The parent Block Reference id can be retrieved by a method of the REntity class: attrib.getParentId()
See reference

Then:
On any change you have to cast the entity back to the document (With an RDocumentInterface reference in di):

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var op = new RAddObjectOperation(attrib);
di.applyOperation(op);

If this doesn't answer your question then please provide some code where a known RAttributeEntity must be read or written.
Or a drawing with block attributes and what to select to alter.

Regards,
CVH

[michal_w]

Hi,

Thank you for your thorough answer. I'll try it out.

Michał